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9407 JFF 2017 JFF Brochure FINAL2 “A Global Film Feast” (Clayton Rd and Lindbergh) (Clayton Rd 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival 22nd Annual St. Jewish Film Louis June 4-8, 2017 Cinema • Frontenac Plaza Landmark A Program of the Jewish Community Center 2 Millstone Campus Drive St. Louis, MO 63146 stljewishfilmfestival.org 314.442.3179 Advertising Supplement to the St. Louis Jewish Light Opening Day Double Feature Sunday, June 4 ON THE MAP FANNY’S JOURNEY 4:00 PM 7:00 PM Israel Belgium English/Hebrew with English Subtitles French with English Subtitles Director: Dani Menkin Director: Lola Doillon Documentary: 85 Minutes DocuDrama: 94 Minutes “Miracle on Hardwood” Suspenseful, compelling, moving After beating a dynamic Soviet basketball team, Israeli team captain, 1943. Here is the true story of Tal Brody, exclaimed in American-accented Hebrew, “We are on the Map, exceptional bravery and survival we are staying on the Map, not only in sports, but in everything.” That against overwhelming odds. As war phrase and the Maccabi Tel Aviv team, a combination of NBA also-rans is raging in Europe, 13-year-old Fanny and Israeli players, rallied a nation in its David-and-Goliath pursuit of the and her two younger sisters are sent 1977 European Championship. by their parents to a foster home for Featuring interviews with the Jewish children in the French athletes who made history, countryside. As the Germans advance, here is the pulse-pounding Fanny unexpectedly finds herself in action of a high-stakes game charge of a group of 11 young children. Now she must do the combined with an incendiary impossible and lead her little group to the Swiss border in order to political situation. save all their lives. Sponsored by: Kuhn Foundation, Sponsored by: Eileen & Larry Schechter Opening Day Howard N. Lesser Films $15 each Introduction: Irl Solomon, Docent St. Louis Save by buying Introduction: Sandy Pomerantz, Holocaust Museum and Learning Center tickets to Attorney, Past President of the 4pm & 7pm JCC and Gold Medal Winner in for $25 Basketball in the 1965 World Maccabiah Games in Israel Cover photo is from Fanny’s Journey Ticket Information Jewish Film Festival Committee Weekday film tickets: $12 in advance • $13 at the door Co-Chairs .......Marilyn Brown, Jeffrey Korn Students 16 and under: $10 Opening Day • $8 Weekdays Programs .......Marilyn Brown, Jay Goldstein, Ronnie Gross, .......Natalie Kauffman, Hessie Needle, Marlene Sachs Special Events .......Judy Plocker, Paula Sigel, Leon Kravitz, SAVE on opening day films! Felicia Wertz Both films only $25 (regularly $15 each) Film Selection .......Natalie Kauffman SAVE on a four-pack of weekday films: Only $44! Target Marketing/ Organization Liaison .......Janet Weinberg, Hessie Needle, Patsy Spector Tickets available at the J Box Office, online at Ticket Sales .......Judy Barnett, Carolyn Schechter brownpapertickets.com or call the Ticket Hotline: Jewish Film Society .......Natalie Kauffman Raffle .......Kent Hirshfelder, Jeffrey Korn, Steve Schwedt 314.442.3179 Cultural Arts Staff .......Zelda Sparks, Mary Jane Kambal Please note new weekday film times. 2 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival 22nd Annual St. Louis Jewish Film Festival Monday, June 5 Double Feature 1:00 PM SABENA HIJACKING: BANG: THE BERT MY VERSION BERNS STORY BREAKFAST AT INA’S THE LAST BLINTZ 4:00 PM 7:00 PM USA USA Israel USA English English Arabic/English/French/Hebrew with English Director: Mercedes Kane Director: Dori Berinstein English Subtitles Director: Brett Berns and Bob Sarles Documentary: 50 Minutes Documentary: 30 Minutes Director: Rani Saar Documentary: 94 Minutes DocuDrama: 98 Minutes An affectionate homage An American Captivating Music meets the mob Ina Pinkney is a Chicago legend Dream-Come-True story Based on newly-found audio While not a household name, of the tastiest kind. Known as The Café Edison (aka The Polish recordings of Captain Reginald Bert Berns was the songwriter the “Breakfast Queen,” she fed Tea Room) is the story of a Levy, this is the true story of the and producer behind many hit Chicagoans for 33 years – first, multi-generational, big-hearted, hijacking of Sabena flight 571 singles in the 1960s (“Twist and out of a small bakery and, most mom-and-pop family business from Vienna to Tel Aviv on May Shout,” “Piece of My Heart,” recently, from her beloved that is tragically and prematurely 8, 1972. Holding passengers “Under the Boardwalk” and breakfast nook in the West Loop. coming to an end to make room and crew hostage for over 30 “Brown-Eyed Girl”). He also Surviving polio as an infant, Ina for a five-star, white tablecloth hours, four armed terrorists launched the careers of legends now suffers the effects of post- restaurant. It’s also about threatened to blow up the plane such as Van Morrison and Neil polio syndrome which caused her gentrification and all-consuming if Israel refused to release Diamond and produced some to make the difficult decision to greed. It’s an impassioned plea over 300 Palestinian prisoners. of the greatest soul music ever close the doors of her celebrated for “progress” that honors the Weaving archival material with made. Born in the Bronx to establishment at the end of 2013. past, protects the future, and a reenactment of the events, Russian-Jewish immigrants, his The film chronicles the last days preserves the heart and culture of the film includes Levy’s account meteoric rise from obscurity, and of the restaurant as she and her our great cities…before there’s as well as the testimony of the heightened emotional pitch staff serve the final meals. nothing left. passengers, interviews with a of his music, were propelled by a surviving hijacker and Benjamin chronic heart condition that cut Introduction: Ina will be signing Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and his life tragically short. copies of her book “Ina’s Kitchen: Shimon Peres. Memories and Recipes from the Sponsored by: Barnes Jewish Breakfast Queen,” which will be Sponsored by: Jonas Weil Hospital, Linda & Nathan Cohen, available for purchase Judith Gall, Elaine & Jeffrey Korn, Introduction: Linda Levy Lipschitz, Harvey Wallace & Madeleine Elkins daughter of pilot Captain Reginald Levy-Live via Skype from Israel Introduction: Live via Skype Brett Berns, Film Director and son of Bert Berns, along with Bruce Bramoweth, KDHX Radio host, and The Caesars who will Ina Pinkney perform live. Enjoy Films Year Round For those who enjoy films which inspire, entertain, educate and enlighten, become a member of the Jewish Film Society. You will become a part of a community that shares your love of the moving image. Each film offers lively post-film discussions, meant to create dialogue community about issues raised in the films. MEMBER BENEFITS • Films are free to all Jewish Film Society Members • $36 for individual • Guest tickets $10 per film • $54 for a couple • 2017/18 Film dates 9/17 10/22, 12/3, 3/5, 4/1, 5/13 • $18 for students • Membership is tax deductible • See back page on how to join 3 Tickets at brownpapertickets.com or 314.442.3179 Tuesday, June 6 Wednesday, June 7 PAST LIFE GERMANS & JEWS THE WOMEN’S BALCONY THE PICKLE RECIPE 1:00 PM 4:00 PM 7:00 PM 1:00 PM Israel USA Israel USA English/Hebrew/German/Polish English/German with Hebrew with English Subtitles English with English subtitles English Subtitles Director: Emil Ben-Shimon Director: Michael Manasseri Director: Avi Nesher Director: Janina Quint Feature: 98 Minutes Feature: 97 Minutes Feature: 110 Minutes Documentary: 76 minutes Inspired by true events Reckoning, reconciliation, Tradition vs. A sweet pickle of a comedy! In the late 1970s, two daughters transformation the power of women Joey Miller is a cash-strapped of Holocaust survivors – Today, Europe’s fastest growing When the women’s balcony in a party emcee who agrees to go combative journalist Nana, and Jewish population, including Sephardic Orthodox synagogue along with a scheme hatched her younger sister Sephi, a young Israelis, is in Berlin. collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife by his conniving uncle (David soprano and aspiring composer – Germany is considered one of in a coma and the rabbi in shock, Paymer). He must steal his try to unravel a mystery that has the most democratic societies in the congregation falls into crisis. grandmother’s (St. Louisan Lynn shadowed their whole lives. After the world, assuming the position Charismatic young Rabbi David Cohen) most prized possession a performance in West Berlin, of moral leader of Europe as appears to be a savior after the – her famous secret dill pickle Sephi is accosted by a Polish Germans embrace hundreds accident, but he slowly starts recipe in order to sell it for a woman who angrily accuses her of thousands of refugees. pushing his fundamentalist ways small fortune. Naturally, the plan father of murder. As guilty secrets This development couldn’t and tries to take control. This goes horribly wrong, but the and troubling revelations are have been imagined in 1945. tests the women’s friendships lesson Joey learns in the process dredged up, the film boldly charts This film explores Germany’s and creates a gender rift between is priceless – there is nothing dangerous emotional territory, transformation as a society, from the community’s women and more important in life than your still very much part of the Israeli silence about the Holocaust to men. A rousing, good-natured family, except maybe…. collective subconscious. facing it head on. tale that is both rebellious and respectful in spirit. Sponsored by: The Gatesworth at Introduction: Burt Newman, Introduction: Paula Hanssen, One McKnight Place Attorney, and Holocaust Museum Associate Professor of German Sponsored by: Margie and Merle Speaker & International Studies, Webster Horowitz Introduction: Ellen Futterman, University Editor, St. Louis Jewish Light Introduction: Maharat Rory Picker Neiss, Executive Director Jewish Community Relations Council General Information • Call the Jewish Film Festival Hotline to order tickets by phone 314.442.3179.
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